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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:53:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428954804.22867.623.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428951307-16970-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 12:55 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> 
> On systems with caches enabled, NAND I/O may need to flush/invalidate
> the cache during read/write operations. For this to work correctly, all
> buffers must be cache-aligned. Fix nand_verify*() to allocate aligned
> buffers.
> 
> This prevents cache alignment warnings from being spewed when using
> U-Boot to write an updated version of itself to flash on NVIDIA Tegra
> Seaboard (after perturbation of stack/data layout in current
> u-boot-dm/next branch).
> 
> I have validatd (executed) nand_verify(), but I don't think I've executed
> nand_verify_page_oob(); testing of that would be useful.
> 
> Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
> Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> Fixes: 59b5a2ad83df ("nand: Add verification functions")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c | 15 +++------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> index 12dd26a33fac..4e40952bf363 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> @@ -480,13 +480,11 @@ int nand_verify_page_oob(nand_info_t *nand, struct mtd_oob_ops *ops, loff_t ofs)
>  	int rval;
>  	struct mtd_oob_ops vops;
>  	size_t verlen = nand->writesize + nand->oobsize;
> +	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(uint8_t, verbuf, verlen);

Isn't this a bit big for the stack?  Especially if NAND page sizes
continue to grow.  Can you use memalign() instead?

-Scott

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13 19:53 UTC|newest]

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2015-04-13 18:55 [U-Boot] [PATCH] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature Stephen Warren
2015-04-13 19:53 ` Scott Wood [this message]

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